Yet Another Year In Pop: 32

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Having just remembered Kat's away, I shall do my part for ensuring our workplace is primarily used for creating polls-

[Poll #1442013]

Comments

warning: hungover and misanthropic

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It might just be the fact I've been listening to the mighty Crowded House all morning but really what the fvck is that Girls Can't Catch song? I mean honestly. It just ...it's the distilled sound of the bits of Xenomania that are somehow key to their sound but irrelevant to the music and I don't even know if they wrote it. Also, video is embarassingly rub; I'll dig it up in a minute.

Haven't heard the Tinchy/Amelle but suspect will be horrified, no idea who Ian Carey is.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I went to listen to the Tinchy and it sounded fine but I can't remember anything about it, other than that Amelle FTS has a nice voice and Tinchy Stryder doesn't really. Better than "Number One" which has shrunk on me something drastic.

Tinchy

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

One day I will actually get people to listen to his excellent older tracks that I posted here (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/660550.html) when he first started getting hits with this APPALLING, CHEESY, TREBLY ELECTROSHIT direction.

I AM BOYCOTTING YR POLL

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Please delete thread and start again.

The only decent New Entry is missing!*

*i.e. "Funhouse"

All you need to make a record is a girl, an ache, and a beat

[koganbot]

Three out of three ticks, which may be a first for Yet Another Year, though this isn't cause for wild celebration, and I like the so far uncommented-upon Ian Carey best of the three:

Tinchy Stryder f. Amelle Berrabah "Never Leave You": Quite pleased with the peppiness and poppiness of the nonstop background tune but it's not showing Tinchy or Amelle to good advantage. This is good enough for a tick but I wish they'd found an arrangement that gave rapper and singer some space. TICK.

Ian Carey Project "Get Shaky": Fast rhythm, strong guitar, the singing is effectively - what's the word for it - tremulous. A girl, an ache, and a beat: Music! TICK.

Girls Can't Catch "Keep Your Head Up": The woman's deep voice is powerful, juxtaposed with the bass throb; the chorus takes me by surprise, gets showy, pulls an attention-getting chord shift. The track is way too undifferentiated from here on, all rev-it-up, but that odd chord change hooks me every time, even if overall this track doesn't come close to the rough promise of its opening. TICK.